Canadian physician and bestselling author, Dr. Gabor Maté. From disease to addiction, parenting to attention deficit disorder, Dr. Maté's work focuses on the centrality of early childhood experiences to the development of the brain, and how those experiences can impact everything from behavioral patterns to physical and mental illness.
His 4 books include: When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection; Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More than Peers; In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction. *
interviwed by Amy Goodman and produced by Democracy Now (democracynow.org) from all 3(?) interviews in 2010 *
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